I've been playing kickball for a while now. I've always been the pitcher, nothing but and this is from my view. I started off as a slow ball, middle school roller I might as well been using 2 hands and swinging it thru my legs then rolling it to the plate. My 1st season we got creamed and as any pitcher I felt it was all my fault. Thing is the whole league was pitching slow, except for one guy and he pitched like we did in high school curves, back spins all that jazz (you know how exceptional kickballers did to dominate). We called him Roger Clemens. He blew my mind, he made us kick where he wanted us to kick, but unfortunately his outfield suck so ..... When I started doing it, he pulled me to the side showed me some things and from there I said my next season will be crazy.
Now in the next season I'm not gone say I changed the way pitching was viewed and done in our league. We joined a different location in the same league and no Roger Clemens. So I watched some YouTube videos SFKO, WAKA all that and saw how they dictated the flow. Make this person pop up, 2 people on, 1st and 2nd, kicker wanna go down 1st make him kick to 3rd possible double play. Really I got that crazy in learning how to pitch this ball. And just like that, it was happening granted my defense was stellar and I put them in spots I felt would utilize my thoughts of directional pitching. Nonetheless we were off and running. I was actually striking people out it was nuts. Thats when I realized "Pitchers Make The World Go Round" just like in baseball.
Now I'm playing in 2 leagues where I swear every team has a fastball pitcher not just fastball let me be more accurate a Crafty Pitcher (well the new teams after they see what I do to em') and we're in a pitchers war like every game. Some teams allow girls to pitch so they can put more guys in the field and honestly those teams aren't doing so well (not saying a girl can't get down) but the extra fielder is useless when the pitcher pitches that slow crap and good kickers have time to make his/her mind up where to go with the ball. Truthfully, it's like watching Cliff Lee vs. CC Sabathia or Verlander vs. Halladay or whoever you get my drift, pitch it out. Our games are low scoring 1 point wins maybe 2. The satisfaction of pitching 1 kickers or 2 kickers, shutouts, and strikeouts is incredible. There is a team in my league, my rivals called Kick In A Box and believe me when I say that they were already dominant, but I've seen them come from giving up 20+ runs in previous seasons which is superb, too these 2 seasons we're in now with their pitcher blacking out actually giving up less than 10 points in both leagues. Don't get me wrong with experience comes success, but in this league I've seen a total 360 in some teams mid season just with pitching changes. Same thing for my squad we only gave up 17 points this season. Pitching. Like I said 80% of the league is like this now and I personally think its better because of it. I love/hate winning 12-1 and 14-0, but I love being up 10-9 bottom of the 9th runners in scoring position 2 outs with a full count and striking the kicker out to win the Tournament Championship. Yes it happened. Pitching Wars. I will be doing more on this later.
